Whatever you tax you get less of.
ALAN GREENSPANWe need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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